Giorgos Dalaras is the son of Lukas Daralas, a rembetiko singer of the fifties and sixties. Since the release of his first album in 1969 he has recorded over 50 of his own albums and taken part in another 40. He has sold over 10 million albums and has worked with just about every famous Greek composer including Mikos Theodorakis, Apostolis Kaldaras, Stavros Kouyioumitsis, Yiannis Markopoulos, Manos Loizos, Stavros Xarhakos and recorded just about every style of Greek music as well as an album of Latin music.
He has performed over 500 concerts outside of Greece promoting Hellenism and his performances within Greece would be impossible to count. Dalaras has been involved in social issues and helped raise money for humanitarian causes. A fine guitarist his main musical strengths are a powerful voice that is coveted by every great composer in Greece, an energetic stage presense, and a great sense of musical taste that make just about any of his albums worth having no matter what language you speak.
Among his albums considered classics are 50 Years...
(Read More)Giorgos Dalaras is the son of Lukas Daralas, a rembetiko singer of the fifties and sixties. Since the release of his first album in 1969 he has recorded over 50 of his own albums and taken part in another 40. He has sold over 10 million albums and has worked with just about every famous Greek composer including Mikos Theodorakis, Apostolis Kaldaras, Stavros Kouyioumitsis, Yiannis Markopoulos, Manos Loizos, Stavros Xarhakos and recorded just about every style of Greek music as well as an album of Latin music.
He has performed over 500 concerts outside of Greece promoting Hellenism and his performances within Greece would be impossible to count. Dalaras has been involved in social issues and helped raise money for humanitarian causes. A fine guitarist his main musical strengths are a powerful voice that is coveted by every great composer in Greece, an energetic stage presense, and a great sense of musical taste that make just about any of his albums worth having no matter what language you speak.
Among his albums considered classics are 50 Years of Rembetika Songs, Ta Tragoudia Mou (live), Mikra Asia, and Rembetika Tis Katohis, but if you ask 50 people to make a list of the best Dalaras albums no two lists will be the same. Now Deserted Villages is his first album for Universal Music and is due in May. It is the first comprehensive work by composer and accordion soloist Dasho Kurti. George Dalaras interprets most of the songs.
George Dalaras is not only a top-ranking singer and musician. He is also known for his love for good music, for knowing the traditions of many nations and for promoting the people who respect and express them. It is common knowledge that with his decisive cooperation he opens new roads for people who, according to him, have a lot to offer to the art of music and has never been proved wrong. After his very successful cooperation with Goran Bregovic, George Dalaras continues with yet another Balkan composer. Dasho Kurti is one of those who made a lasting impression with his very first work, as he is replete with soul, feeling and knowledge of the musical tradition of his nation.
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